THE former home of Lynette White's killer has been sold within hours of it going on the market.

Jeffrey Gafoor was jailed earlier this year for murdering the Cardiff prostitute in a frenzied knife attack. He had evaded capture for 15 years.

Now serving a life sentence, he is believed to have pocketed around #12,000 from the sale of his three-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Llanharan, Rhondda Cynon Taf.

Local councillor Greg Powell said, "It's good news and now, hopefully, it will be occupied by a decent family who will get involved in our community.

"That will sever a link with a horrific crime so we can move on."

Gafoor, who had been working as a night security guard, had been living a solitary existence at the #50,000 property at Bridgend Road.

He bought the house from local garage owner Josie Jenkins nearly three years ago and seemed a polite but shy addition to the Llanharan community.

But Gafoor had been harbouring an unspeakable secret - he butchered a defenceless 20-year-old woman on St Valentine's Day 1988 by stabbing her 60 times. He then kept silent while three men were wrongly convicted.

Steve Miller, Yusef Abdullahi and Tony Paris - who became known as the Cardiff Three - spent years in jail before being released on appeal in 1992.

Gafoor was caught earlier this year by revolutionary DNA techniques when police investigated an assault involving a member of his family.

Louise Chard, of estate agent Re-Max in nearby Talbot Green, said yesterday, "The house has already been sold.

"It went very quickly but we can't give any more information because of confidentiality with our client Mr Gafoor."